Transcript YAAYS_20jan2007

Yerkes Astrophysics Academy for Young Scientists (YAAYS)
January 20, 2007 Invitational Festival
Yerkes Observatory,
Williams Bay, Wisconsin
Space Telescope
Science Institute,
Baltimore, Maryland
Max Mutchler
Flashback to the 1970s: people and space
missions that inspired me to study astronomy
Voyagers
Goodland Elementary School, Racine, Wisconsin
Hubble Space Telescope in orbit:
location, location, location!
The “Home of Hubble”
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
on the campus of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore
Edwin Hubble as a student
at Yerkes Observatory in 1916
(you are in very good company)
Hubble and the Yerkes Academy
• How does Hubble work?
• Beyond the pretty pictures: science at the
cutting edge
• Mining data archives for hidden gems
• Yerkes Academy observing proposal: where
would you point Hubble?
• Planning, observing, analysis, publication
• Looking over my shoulder (via webcam) during
exciting science projects that come up
Hubble was
launched
into orbit
by the
Space Shuttle
in 1990
Hubble is serviced in
orbit by astronauts
1993
1997
1999
2002
2008?
Advanced Camera
for Surveys (ACS)
Installed during
Hubble Servicing Mission 3B
March 2002
Raw Hubble data becoming a color image
Studying the visible and invisible light
Swellform
Science data can become a color image,
but it can also be represented in other ways
Where would you point Hubble?
Your turn to talk to me!
• One person at a time…
• Step up close to the web camera
• Clearly say your name, grade, and where
you are from
• What do you like about space?
• Do you have any questions?
Yerkes Academy
Hubble data mining and observations
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Provide some authentic cutting-edge research experiences
Collaboration, teamwork, ownership
Data-mining: search data archives for interesting data
Propose Hubble Heritage observing project
Choosing a suitable target; observation planning
First look at the raw data: videoconference
Data processing and analysis
Make a color-composite image
Hubble Heritage press release
Publish paper, present results at a conference: AAS, ASP?
More information…
Hubble Space Telescope:
http://hubblesite.org/
http://spacetelescope.org/
Hubble Heritage:
http://heritage.stsci.edu/
Max Mutchler:
http://www.stsci.edu/~mutchler
[email protected]